Noise At Work Risk Assessment
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 places a duty on employers to ensure that worker’s hearing is not damaged by exposure to noise during their work.
Do you have a noise problem?
What noise sources are there in your workplace?
Could workers be exposed to a harmful amount of noise that is above the exposure limit?
As a rule of thumb: if workers have to raise their voice to have a conversation at normal speaking volume it is worth doing a workplace noise risk assessment.
Would you like to know what your employee’s average daily noise dose is and how that compares to the legal requirements? Would you also like some guidance on hearing protection zones and the types of hearing protection that is the most suitable for the noise sources present and whether you need to send your workers for health surveillance?
The size of the problem in the UK:
There are an estimated 23,000 workers with work-related hearing problems, with 70 new claims for work-related deafness in 2017 alone due to noise exposure at work.
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 places a duty on employers to ensure that worker’s hearing is not damaged by exposure to noise during their work.
Where noise measurements have highlighted decibel levels to be high and where this is in combination with long periods of exposure time it is very likely that employees are being exposed to at or above the upper action value (UAV).
Where this is the case, the regulations require employers to assess the risks and ensure they are reduced to an acceptable level through the application of noise specific control measures. Control measures include combat the noise at source with engineering controls, marking out hearing protection zones, the provision and enforcement of the correct type of hearing protection and health surveillance.
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Control of Noise at Work Regulations
There are an estimated 23,000 workers with work-related hearing problems, with 70 new claims for work-related deafness in 2017 alone. Find out how this affects your business and how we can help.
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 places a duty on employers to ensure that worker’s hearing is not damaged by exposure to noise during the course of their work.
As a general rule of thumb: if it is difficult to have a conversation at normal volume it is worth doing a noise assessment
Where excessive noise exists in the workplace or during work operations, the employer must ensure a noise risk assessment has been carried out and controls applied to minimise the risk to workers.
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